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I can haz music….

Posted on June 16, 2009 by Val

My iPod arrived today – wo0t!! It took me a while to figure out the touchpad controls, and I’m still trying to find out how to turn the damm thing off to save the battery. But I can now have … Continue reading →

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I Am Reading….

Posted on June 10, 2009 by Val

…Sara Maitland’s The Book of Silence – an autobiographical essay on her search for, and meditations on, silence. I can agree with much of what she writes – of how silence should be regarded a presence, not an absence, for … Continue reading →

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Hallelujah for songwriters…

Posted on December 14, 2008 by Val

….especially for Leonard Cohen. Unbelievably, I’d never heard his song Hallelujah before today. It was bought to my attention because there is a campaign to make the Jeff Buckley version the Christmas no 1, instead of the newly-released version by … Continue reading →

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Riding Out The Opposition…

Posted on November 4, 2008 by Val

For me, the big event of the day was an exact astrological opposition between Uranus and Saturn. So I’ve avoided getting involved in any celestial pile-ups by spending my time at the pooter, struggling to get to grips with Joomla. … Continue reading →

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